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TIL Jesse Owens, 4 time Gold Medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was not invited to the White House by FDR after winning them. He said this about not being invited, “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”

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nePQP Til that Sailing stones exist - rocks that move up to 5 meters per minute across the ground by themselves, leaving trails behind them. The movement is caused by temperature changes and they're so common in a part of Death Valley that it's called 'Racetrack playa' due to the 'tracks' that they leave.
9wvP6 TIL I learned that in 2012, in an attempt to reduce the number of people ending their lives by jumping off of South Korea's Mapo Bridge, the bridge was renamed The Bridge of Life and was decorated with life affirming messages. The amount of people jumping actually increased the following year.
W79wY TIL During the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s, Norwegian government sent Stockfish (dried preserved cod fish) as food aid. Stockfish ended up becoming a Nigerian staple. Now, almost all of the Stockfish produced in Norway is exported to Nigeria.
ZpYaR TIL The Story of Sengol: From Nehru to Modi, the Historic Sceptre of Tamil Nadu
R54G6 TIL: In 2021, scientists found the fossils of a reptile that "looks like a pokemon" the size of a pigeon with a frog like moth, bat wings, large eyes, and a long tail. The fossils were 160 million years old. It was named Sinomacrops bondei, which means "China, large eyes and face".